As part of our pursuit to democratize AI, Google Cloud AI Workshop offers customers, partners, researchers, and developers the opportunity to experiment with cutting-edge AI innovations. Our AI researchers and engineers are building new concepts, new techniques, and new applications at the furthest extents of science and technology — and want you to try them out.
The end goal? To connect research and practice so that we can address enterprise AI challenges together.
What is AI Workshop?
A gallery of experiments
At the core of AI Workshop are the exploratory
technologies that our researchers and engineers have chosen to share with you.
Browse through them below.
A forum for conversation
AI Workshop unites the AI researchers and
engineers with the users who innovate with their AI products. By interacting
more directly, these groups produce new ideas, ask hard questions, and provide honest feedback.
An evolving platform
AI Workshop is not stagnant. We aim to launch new
content regularly and rapidly. Our researchers and engineers update and
improve their experiments based on your feedback and tests. We expect that some
of these experiments will graduate to become new products and that some won’t —
and we’re OK with that.
What is an experiment?
Experiments are novel technologies that represent some of the latest work from our researchers and engineers, who are focused on the biggest challenges in AI and machine learning. These experiments reflect the magnitude of those ambitions.
Works in progress
Experiments are not products. They may still be rough around the edges, and are supported directly by our research teams. We will do our very best to ensure a great experience, but there is no guarantee of availability, reliability, performance, or robustness against bias. They might be changed in backward-incompatible ways. They are not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy. There is no commitment that they will become products or product features in the future. We strongly recommend that they NOT be used in production environments or for essential workflows.
Diverse
From APIs and services to tools, experiments may take many forms. They will treat different (or many) types of data and may be applicable to a range of industries and functions.
Free to use
We do not charge for participation in the experiments themselves. However, there may be associated charges if you use other Cloud services as part of your workflow. This may include, but is not limited to: storage, compute, or other Cloud AI products (such as API calls).
Who can use an experiment?
AI savvy
In general, more technically advanced users will reap the most benefit from experiments. They will be able to set up, run, evaluate, and troubleshoot our more sophisticated experiments.
Working on frontiers
Given their early-stage nature, experiments are best suited for customers who are also working in experimental stages rather than in production environments. If you're exploring new uses of data, building prototypes and proofs of concept, and developing academic research, you could be a match for AI Workshop.
Willing to help
All participants will have to register as Google Cloud customers in order to gain access to the Experiments. Usage of the experiments is governed by the Pre-GA Terms and Confidential Information provisions (as "Google Confidential information") of your Google Cloud Platform License Agreement.
Live experiments
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PubMed Semantic Search
The PubMed Semantic Search experiment offers an API to submit natural language queries and receive relevant publications and highlighted evidence from the PubMed index, which includes over 30 million papers. The tool leverages state-of-the-art natural language understanding to process complex biomedical queries and help scientists and researchers quickly arrive at relevant papers and answers.
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Abstractive Document Summarizations
Formulate natural language summaries of text documents. Submit a text document (will be truncated at ~800 words), and receive back a summary of ~200 words.
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Hard-attention Explanations for Image Classification
Customers can use an API that will classify an image while also providing explanations for which parts of the image contributed to the classification. Previous efforts to build these kinds of explanations suffered from either brittle explanations or low classification performance.
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Automated Image Captions and Descriptions
This experiment leverages Google's state of the art multimodal understanding models to conceptually describe images. These descriptions could be used for applications enabling scenarios where fluent and accurate natural language description of an image is important.
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Natural Language Emotion Classification
Understanding the emotional content of text can provide valuable insights about users or the content, especially in areas such as customer feedback, reviews, customer support, and product branding. This experiment classifies text by emotions such as joy, amusement, gratitude, surprise, disapproval, sadness, anger, and confusion.
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Generating Specialized Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge graphs are valuable artifacts, but constructing one for a particular domain can be prohibitively expensive. This project aims to provide an automated means of producing a knowledge graph of entities/topics/concepts simply by analyzing a corpus of documents uploaded by the user.
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Summarizing Multiple Short Texts
This experiment allows customers to train a Summarizer - a model that ingests short pieces of text (like restaurant reviews), and outputs a canonical summary of all of those pieces of text (like a single summary review of that restaurant).
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Differential Privacy Office Hours
Machine learning models can memorize data, which can bring about privacy challenges. But there exist techniques to measure such memorization and train models with greater levels of privacy. This experiment allows users to consult with Google experts on how to train machine learning models such that they are differentially private, using the open-source TensorFlow Privacy library.
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Semantic Similarity for Natural Language
For a given piece of text, find the most similar or related text items among a list of candidates. Built from correlations in natural language usage, this experiment helps to connect items based on meaning and usage rather than simple keywords.
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Image Classification with Confidence Scores
AI systems can be a lot more useful when we know how much we can rely on a certain prediction. This experiment generates an AI model that returns both the predicted class and a well-calibrated confidence score of the prediction.
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Interpretable Image Classification with Prototypes
We can better explain model predictions by surfacing the most similar items from training data. Customers bring their data, and we return a classifier that not only predicts the output, but also related examples (prototypes) that explain the decision.